Judges…the enemy within:

‘BRITISH officials and media have reacted with outrage after judges allowed terror suspect Abu Qatada, dubbed Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe, to go free on bail…’Does anybody believe that if you or I broke the law and overstayed our welcome in Britain, it would take years, millions of dollars in legal fees and then they’d release us on bail? We’d be out on the first available flight.

50 years ago Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, told Britain’s Commonwealth Secretary R A Butler to his face that Britain’s problems in Africa were caused by that country’s ministers willingness to buckle under threats from African nationalists and that its situation would be transformed if they showed more backbone.

Saw an interview on Sky TV this morning with a Tory Party MP saying they should have just put him on a plane and send him off, and let the ECHR do its worst. Why that hasn’t happened already is beyond me.

True enough, but to my mind taking out the trash will do absolutely nothing to the Tory vote. It will enrage voters in those areas that have never and will never vote Tory and will bolster those who wonder about the party’s soft edges (and middle).

We expect the other team to oppose that stripping away, all too often failing to realise they are not really the other team at all, but rather one big team (like American football – ‘offence’ and ‘defence’). They are all the enemy.

‘I believe that politicians, lawyers, busy-bodies and do-gooders are like salamis- greatly improved by hanging for a time.’ Oswald Bastable

"The loss of freedom is like cancer; it will spread slowly but surely across all parts of society until our liberty has been utterly eaten away and we are left with nothing but a half-forgotten idea of what freedom was."